Law/Jurisprudence

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. First Edition. Hardcover. Series: Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
The specialized vocabularies of lawyers, ethicists, and political scientists obscure the roots of many real disagreements. In this book, the distinguished American international lawyer Alfred Rubin provides a penetrating account of where these roots... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995. First Edition. Hardcover. Almost every country today contains adherents of different religions and different secular conceptions of the good life. Is there any alternative to a power struggle among them, leading most probably to either civil war or repression? The argument of this book is that... More

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1987. First Trade Paperback Edition. Eighth Printing. Paperback. Catharine A. MacKinnon, noted feminist and legal scholar, explores and develops her original theories and practical proposals on sexual politics and law. These discourses, originally delivered as speeches, have been brilliantly woven into a book that retains all... More

Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. First Paperback Edition. Paperback. Presents the author's analysis of politics, sexuality and the law from the perspective of women. Using the debate over Marxism and feminism as a point of departure, MacKinnon develops a theory of gender centred on sexual subordination and applies it... More

New York: Bloomberg Press, 2009. Second Edition. First Printing. Softcover. An indispensable survival guide for anyone in the media industry and the lawyers who serve them
Especially now, in an age of instant global access through digital media, it is vitally important that journalists, authors and publishers, as well... More

Cambridge: Polity Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. In this book, [the author] traces the myriad ways in which interpretive perspectives have come to prominence in modem political philosophy. Focusing on the work of John Rawls, Michael Walzer, Ronald Dworkin, Charles Taylor, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Jurgen Habermas, Warnke finds an increasing... More

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. First Edition. Paperback. Interpretation of the law is based on assumptions about the nature of texts, language, and the act of interpretation itself. These fourteen new essays trace the origin of these assumptions, examine their philosophical implications, and extend legal interpretation in new and... More

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Fifth Edition. Paperback. This is the fifth edition of this textbook on public international law. The material has been thoroughly revised and updated to take account of developments since 1990, and a new chapter on international environmental protection has been added. The book retains all its... More